FILM NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1919, Page 4

FILM NEWS.

“MARY QUEEN" OF SCOTS” PICTURE.

A film version of the life of Mary Queen of Soots from the time she ascended the throne until her death is to be made in Great Britain by a British company, with Miss Violet Hopson as the Queen. “Particular attention is being paid to the details of dress and setting,” said a member of the producing company yesterday. “Sketches have been made in the museums of gowns and jewels worn by the Queen on outstanding occasions in her career. Plans of her residences, both ‘interior’ and ‘exterior,’ including Holyrood Palace, have been drawn, and it is expected that much of the outside scenery as well as the ‘interiors’ will have to be built up for the film. Hoylrood Palace, for instance, does not resemble the building of Queen Mary’s time enough to be historically accurate. “There will be a large cast, and every effort will be made to ‘make up’ the actors and actresses to look like contemporary portraits of the historic figures they represent.”

Miss Brady was a great success on the stage before she played for the screen, and she tells of the shock she received when she saw her first film effort. Matters went well until she looked upon her own profile. “Then my self-complacency fled,” she said. “Could it be my nose that was apparently standing on end? I was positively shocked. It seemed to flaunt its imperfections on the film, I never knew a tip-tilted nose could be so obvious. So I took film work much more seriously than I should otherwise have done, determined to succeed in spite of my nose.” ***** “The Impossible Woman,” a new British film which has just been shown privately, deals with a talented pianist who has become an autocrat in her own circle owing to the flattery she has received from the musical world in general. A young barrister, who is not impressed by her neurotic ways, marries her ward, and the pianist then settles down to make his married life unpleasant for him and is beaten after a few early successes.